ExperienceAbout the ExpertIO Team
The all senior engineering team at ExpertIO has extensive expertise in bus, networking, and storage protocols. Most of the members have 20-30 years each of ASIC design and verification experience. The members previously worked at such companies as IBM, DEC, Alcatel, Xylan, Maxtor, Qlogic, Vitesse Semiconductor, and TRW. The team is distributed at several locations across the US.
About the Founder
Craig Stoops has more than 25 years of experience designing high speed I/O ASICs and processor chips for leading industry companies. Craig spent the first 14 years of his industry career with IBM, designing RISC System 6000 processors and I/O subsystems. He was the verification lead of one processor chipset. He was also highly involved in setting up ASIC design methodologies at two IBM locations.
He architected and designed for IBM the first Gigabit per second I/O adapter implemented on a workstation class machine, as well as the design of several other storage and networking Host Bus Adapters, including Fibre Channel. He was one of the IBM representatives to the Fibre Channel Interoperability Association.
After leaving IBM in 1997, Craig worked for several start-up companies in the Storage Area Network (SAN), WAN, and Video on Demand markets where he architected, designed, managed and verified numerous high performance (up to 16Gbit/sec) ASICs, FPGAs, and complete systems, including:
- System to transport Motion Picture quality video over ATM
- 3 generations of Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBA)
- Architecture and design of Packet Processing Engines
- Video on Demand system supplying 500 MPEG2 streams per enclosure
- 16Gb/s networking SPI4.2 crossbar switch chip
Craig is the Founder and CEO of ExpertIO, a Verification IP company specializing in I/O protocols such as PCI Express, Ethernet, SPI4.2, Fibre Channel, Serial ATA, and Serial SCSI. ExpertIO offers Protcol Verification IP, as well as chip / system architecture, design, and verification services.
